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Lies and Deceit - McGuinty’s Withdrawal of Sexual Health Curriculum
Does Not Change the Curriculum
P.E.A.C.E. Public Education Advocates for Christian Equity
Box 306, Hamilton, On plees@mountaincable.net
Premier Dalton McGuinty’s withdrawal of the Sexual Health Curriculum is a fraudulent political tactic designed to provide a sense of security for parents – the offensive material will be taught.
The withdrawn sexual health document was the first curriculum revised by the Ministry of Education under the guidelines of the Ministry’s “Equity and Inclusive Education Document (April 2009)” which mandates an education environment (including curriculum) that is inclusive of the LGBT communities. Curriculum writers, ‘looking through the lens’ of this new philosophy in education, revised the 1998 curriculum to include content that many parents found to be inappropriate for their children (instruction in the primary grades about LGBT families, gender identity instruction about being physically one sex but feeling the opposite, anal and oral sex, etc).
The “Equity and Inclusive Education Policy Document, mandates that every school board implement an equity policy by September 2010. Many school boards equity policies, including Hamilton-Wentworth Public School Board, include Sexual Orientation and Gender Equity sections that require positive instruction about LGBT lifestyles – instruction that parents clearly saw in the Ministry of Education’s 2010 sexual health curriculum.
The revised sexual health document may have been removed, but every school board is still required to implement the overriding policy Equity and Inclusive Education Policy, mandating the curriculum be LGBT positive.
Hence teachers will return to the 1998 sexual health curriculum, (which does not include the offensive content), and be expected to independently revise the curriculum so that it is consistent with the values of the Equity policy. The teacher will be expected to provide the same instruction as described in the revised curriculum, without parents being able to read it in a curriculum document.
This is not new, many school boards and classrooms were implementing such instruction prior to the Ministry of Education publishing the sexual health curriculum. When parents see it written in a curriculum document, they understand this is not what I want for my child. However, now the instruction will be occurring below the surface. The school board will not have lessons written for teachers in a document the parents may view, they will, however will provide the necessary resources (books, videos, etc.), and require teachers to include positive LGBT messages in their lessons.
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